Well done Bags. You’ve been reading Ustinov? I think you have to get a few more right before I’ll consider you for a prize. The BBFC ban wasn’t what I was looking for, and I don’t think Meet the Feebles was ever banned here. I saw it on release.

Well done Alex. All correct. You win the heterochromia award, a single contact lens of the colour of your own choosing.

Excellent work, McKie.

Good work on the still, Gloria. Jack Pierce is a very good answer to 10a, but can you back it up? “Rose Murasaki” got the answer I had in mind, which was, basically, windscreens.

7b: Are noses limbs? Tim Strawn had his bit off in a fight, Enspector Dreyfuss shot his off (regenerating in next scene, Warner Bros. style), and the scary guy in Harry Potter had his digitially removed at great expense.

I’m back! Apologies to those who were awaiting moderation before their answers could appear, and to those who answered the same questions only to find some invisible person answered the same questions half an hour earlier.

To business!

Dan — excellent answers, all entertainingly wrong. More please!

“Rose” — wrong on both counts, although that is indeed Mark Lester in the film that isn’t Eyewitness (it’s something much, much worse).

Experimontofilm, yes and yes to brains and leglessness, no to Holy Mountains and Berlin Alexanderplatz.

David E, yes to Lola M, but you were trumped by Bags. The Costa-Gavras connection is great but has nothing to do with missing limbs (although CG did direct Missing. Had he also directed a film called Limbs I would have allowed this).

Chuck, correct on the Zombies and on the correct spelling of Ayckqroyddd, and well done on Village of the Giants — perhaps that’s your frame grab? If so, well done! Also well done on 2b, Walker is it.

Randy, correct on 1b, the Wizard, 3b, Village ot Giants (although now that Chuck’s answer has been approved you can see he got their first, albeit independently), correct on 4c pilots, Billy Barty is right for 6a but there’s MORE TO IT, and 7b, for our purposes, yes, noses are limbs. So you get the point. 7c is technically almost right, but ExperimentoFilm’s answer is more specific, kind of. 8d, incredibly, no, Chuck got this one. 9d and c, Telly Savalas is a good answer to any question in my book, but not alas correct here. 10a, correct, but you’re not the first to say it.

Paul, great on 4a, now what can we spell with that? Bunny Lake is right but a previously invisible competitor steals the prize. The mermaid thing is so close I’m tempted to say yes. “I thought you said Troy McClure was dead?” “No, I said he sleeps with the fishes.”

Paul, I’m amazed that you can get Static but not the connection to Feldman! Well done, in a way.

Bryan Kam, three out of three correct quotes, with only 1d now remaining unguessed-at. Try saying it in a high-pitched voice, while wearing a single tusk. Correct, but trumped, on the legless. It’s not Diner — see above.

Brandon, yes to the religion and commerce comment, but you can go further, focussing on the characters’ employment. 4d: “Could it be that each directed a movie commonly credited to the writer or producer” – Afraid not. But an interesting and elaborate theory! 5c, it’s not angels.
5d, “played God in one way or another” – no, it’s sort of fairer than that.
9c: “Edward G Robinson?” Not so far as I know.

2c they were all attacked by birds! Hedren is obvious, Shepherd in Omen 2 – though can’t remember it happening to Fonda – did they attack her in Barbarella? Only assailants I can remember are the horrible dolls.

(Oh and you can call me Anne if you like – the RoseMurasaki seems to have been drafted in from some other wordpress blog I signed up to.)

Experimento and Anne (she’s Anne Billson, everybody!), yes, I’ll call this a tie. Fonda is savaged by starlings “This is a much too poetic way to die!” in Barbarella. The effect is similar to the doll attack: artfully shredded Paco Rabanne costuming.

Oh yeah, Coogan’s a God in that bloody Harry Potter knock-off that’s out at the moment, isnt he? And Carrey is Bruce Almighty. Chapman, God in ….the Holy Grail. There you go. The Feldman one has be beat, though.

No it is Otto. When I first read of the film’s production in Chris Fujiwara’s book, I was surprised that Preminger personally shot it, I thought Preminger had taken an actual TV performance. But then that wouldn’t have been as weird I guess. I incorrectly thought that people would be as surprised as I am.

What I had in mind is that Coogan in 24hr Party People, Chapman as King Arthur in Holy Grail, and Carrey in Bruce Almighty (and John Denver in Oh God!) all TALK TO GOD. But I think the fact that Coogan also played the God he talked to, and Chapman was in another, more religious film, made it confusing.

The Feldman-Gordon link — unless I’m mistaken — is that they both work in crucifix factories in Static and In God We Trust. Gordon collects defective crosses (crucified blobs, two Christs on a single cross) whereas Feldman, a monk, has the job of nailing the Tiny Christs onto their crosses on a conveyor belt.

Well, it’s twenty-two years since I last saw Static (I thought he was a TV repairman or drove a school bus, that’s how much I remember). The fact that the character invented a TV that could see heaven had me on the wrong track WRT Feldman- it was an interesting wrong track tho!

I don’t think anybody will. They’re all fish-fetishists. The eel handling woman appears as a fantasy figure in Juliette of the Spirits and City of Women. Troy McClure’s career was recked by a piscine sex scandal. And Neil Jordan obsessively crams fish into every film, and has finally made a mermaid movie.

1d – The Elephant Man. Since he doesn’t use baby talk most of the time, it always seemed strange and interesting that he says “Who they are?” when looking at Anthony Hopkins’ family photos. But it turns out the script reads “Who are they of?” an unspeakable line which John Hurt obviously choked on, so that the line came out funny and Lynch embraced the oddness.

5a — I was quite proud of this one. Crucifixes used as weapons, featuring in all Peter Cushing’s Van Helsing roles, Dustin Hoffman swinging a cross in The Graduate, Jodorowski’s cruci-gun in The Holy Mountain. Are there any other examples?